The Clive red light camera's catch around 13 thousand drivers a year! But at the end of the month, all of those cameras will be turned off! Ben Jordan joins us LIVE in Clive with how the city plans to make up for the lost revenue. Ben? Kevin and Stacey we're live on 156 Street in Clive where one of the nine red light cameras are. Come June 30th, these rush hour drivers won't have to worry about them any more. When you ask drivers in Clive about these red light cameras that have been up since 2006 you get a mixed reaction.... "GET EM OUT OF HERE." "IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO GAIN REVENUE FOR THE CITY. AND IT'S NOT REALLY INCREASING THE SAFETY AROUND HERE." "I GUESS I DON'T HAVE A STRONG OPINION BECAUSE IF YOU BREAK THE LAW YOU BREAK THE LAW." After Last July, Clive city council voted to get rid of the cameras at the end of the fiscal year which is June 30. Until then, each driver who runs the red light is ticketed $100 dollars. Adding up to between 6 and 7 hundred thousand dollars a year. Just over 3 percent of the city's general revenue. "IT'LL BE ABOUT A 475,000 REDUCTION IN THE REVENUE BECAUSE THERE'S A CARRY OVER OF FINES IF YOU WILL THAT WILL BE COMING IN THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF FISCAL YEAR '15 SO SOME OF THAT WILL BE OFFSET." To make up the 4-hundred 75 thousand dollars in the upcome yearly city budget, Clive will eliminate 3 city jobs, reduce legal, police, and hotel tax expenses, increase hotel revenues and dip into reserve money. But for the future... 2:50-:00 "FOR THE FUTURE YEARS WE ANTICIPATE THAT THE ADDITIONAL WILL BE MADE UP FROM GROWTH WITHIN THE CITY BECAUSE WE'RE CONTINUING TO SEE A GOOD GROWTH RATE IN OUR TAX BASE." After June 30th, drivers say they plan to see more police. "THAT'S REALLY WHAT YOU NEED, YOU NEED MORE PATROL AND LESS AUTOMATION." The Clive city manager tells me an average of 37,000 vehicles pass these cameras everyday. Stacey... Thanks Ben.

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